City Enacts Emergency Rules Aimed At Those Thick Black Cables, But Not 5G
Written by 991KBU on December 10, 2020
Malibu has a new set of rules to crack down on overhead wires.
Not power lines … but the heavy unsafe and ugly-looking wads and coils of thick black communications cables up in the air.
The wireless … and the hardwire communications companies … have made a total mess.
Resident John McGinley … speaking at last night’s city council meeting.
NEWSCART 73130 WIRES MCGINLEY
“Look at the dangling wires and equipment some on the ground coiled in bundles or even crossing over other Wires.
“There is no such thing ever stop blending on display here.
“These are all extraordinary safety and fire risks.”
Rather than spend the money to install overhead cables and antennas safely and with little impact … they have left giant coils of cables in the air.
They have left abandoned wires on poles.
The biggest offenders by far are Frontier and Charter … the telephone internet and cable TV companies.
But even the new wireless carriers … like Verizon T-Mobile and AT and T have installed junk in the air.
Abandoned wires are all over the place … one set of abandoned wires at Paradise Cove was installed during World War 2 and abandoned more than 50 years ago.
The new ordinance will not address 5-G.
It will not reduce the capability f wireless companies to provide services.
That may not satisfy all the activists who were campaigning fr a crackdown.
Like … speaking at last night’s city council meeting … Jerri Churchill
NEWSCART 73132 JERRI CHURCHILL
“You know we moved to Malibu because of the the country atmosphere … and I want to use the Internet less.
“I don’t have any social media.
“I live in Malibu because I love that vibe, backcountry vibe. And clearly this telecom companies are coming into Malibu” making a mess.”
And resident June Louks.
She wants the new city council to make some changes in the ordinance in January.
NEWSCART 73131 WIRES JUNE LoUKS
“We disagree with the placement of the final decision making on these antennas with an unelected person … cutting our elected representatives out of the process.”
There’s a reason for that.
City officials say that … once a communications company files request to install equipment here in Malibu … the city has only 60 days to make a determination as to whether it complies with safety rules.
The FCC has a rule called the shot clock.
And the shot clock runs quickly … 60 days.
The city has to read your decision quickly … it can’t wait until a city council meeting … said the city’s lawyers.
Further … the city is only allowed to regulate for aesthetic and safety purposes.
Both state law and federal law strictly prohibit the city for making any regulations about radio magnetic waves.
That up to the federal government.
The new city regulation cannot say anything about so-called 5G frequencies … which have yet to be approved for use in the United States.
Cell phone companies are already marketing 5G technology … but those are using existing radio frequencies that have been used for television broadcasting and other purposes for decades without causing public harm.
The city can only make a determination a proposal based on other non-electronic factors …
And aesthetics … is too close to a house or school???
The city’s ordinance takes effect right now.
City attorney Christi Hogin says the city council should enact the same ordinance next year without the urgency clause … to remove one possible avenue for court challenge from the telecommunications industry.
